The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-11-25
RELIGIOUS.

and SPIRIT Of Christ, the more happy
and honorable and useful yon win Be
The saints are sometimes allowed
to fall into an affection, to preserve
them from falling in with tempta.
tion.
/ tell thee, scholar, God has two
dWellings-one in heaven, and the
other in a meek and thankful heart.--
lzaak Walton.
The trivial matters of this life
would make a curious study, if one
could trace them from their inception
to the hour when their influence coas-
ed to work.-Pansy.
The longer / live, the more highly
dol estimate the Christian Sabbath, and
the more grateful / feeltowards those
who impress its Importance on the
community. Webster.
lie who spends his younger days in
dissipation is mortgaging himself to
disease and poverty, two inexorable
creditors who are certain to foreclose
at last and take possession of the
premises.
What the Scripture torbids, avoid !;
what it affirms, believe; what it com
mands, do; what 1t reproves, amend.
AS many as walk by this rule, peace
on them, and on the Israel of God
Iihos. adams.
1t is almost always when things are
all blocked up and impossible that a
happening comes. 1t has to. A dead
lock cannot last any more than a vac
nun. If you are sure that you are
looking and ready, that is all you
need. God is turning the world around
all the time.-A. d. T. Whitney.
The mother is to impress her chill
dren with those spiritual characteristics
which she has the best opportunity to
give. No one has the power like a
mother to surround the children with
a right spiritual environment. She
may present the mould for righteous
life. If she has to do this, she must
be gently led every day by the Great
Shepherd of the flock.
The secret of power for this end is
disclosed ia the words, "Because l go
INTO my Father" This carried in it
the coming of the Holy Spirit Hence,
the "Acts of the Apostles" we're in
most real sense the acts of the glori-
fed Christ. Here is our power to-day
power as abiding and constant as
any of the forces of nature. The pray
ing heart knows it.-Rev. Dr. James
CuJrOSS.
One of our Lords pregnant sayings,
which fascinates the more it is ponder
ed, was this: "He that believeth on
Me, the works that I do shall he do
also ; and greater things than these
shall be do; because I go unto my
Father" l do not try to open out
these words; but one thing they tell
unmlstakably-tbe might Of faith
herein echoing all Scripture which
finds in faith the secret of the
greatest deeds and noblest lives.-Rey.
DR.. James GuJrOSs.
Dr. William NJ. Taylor tells that in
his early boyhood, after having heard
a sermon in which the preacher dwelt
much on "the appropriating act of
faith" he asked his father what was
meant by that expression. The old
man gave the same reply which had
been given him by his mother to the
same inquiry when he was lad, VIZ
"Take your Bible and underscore all
the 'my's,' the mines and the mes
you come upon, and you will discover
what appropriation is"
The spiritual life begotton of the
Holy Spirit is the true starting point
of the soul for heaven. By faith it
becomes a child of God, and Is adopt
ed into the family of believers. 1t
begins q career in which trust, dill
gence, patience, love, brotherly kind
ness, and all Christian graces and
virtues are called into action. These
become the means of its growth and
development, and we should seek oc-
casion for their exercise. There is
hardly greater mistake than to shun
legitimate religious work. 1t is false
view that looks upon it as a burden,
as something disciplinary, and of the
nature of cross bearing. We may in
deed make it such by our reluctance
to enter upon it and lack of faith but
God intends it as source of enjoy
ment. One who attempts to live within
himself becomes spiritually impover,
ished and enfeebled.-Central Chris.
tan advocate.
No, we are not bound to go forward
through life ignorant of our relations
to God, or merely hoping that all is
well with us now, and will be well
with us when we have accomplished
our probation and gone to our final
\ settlement. We may now assure our.
selves of his favor, which is life, bask
in the radiance of his smile, and exult
in the prospect of an abundant en-
trance into the everlasting kingdom
of our Lord Jesus Christ. We may
have this assurance in the exercise of
our own reason, and in the operation
of the same mental processes by which
we convince ourselves of the esteem
of our friends and of the love of our
families. The conviction, too, may
be equally as satisfying and equally as
strong. And above all, the seal and
completeness of all, the Spirit bears
witness with our spirits that we are
the children Of God. Let us realize
our privilege, and also realize that our
privilege is our obligation.-PittsBarg
Gisri8tiaR Advocate.